The minister signed a cultural agreement with the Republic of China during the visit.
12. Mencius' 2,347th birthday is observed at the Taipei City Auditorium. President Yen Chia-kan receives Mrs. March Fong, California's secretary of state, and her husband, Henry Eu.
Twenty-four South Korean professors arrive for a visit sponsored by the China Youth Corps.
13. Portions of a diary kept by Premier Chiang Ching-kuo during his month-long period of mourning for his late father, President Chiang Kai-shek, are made public.
He said he would devote the rest of his life to completing his father's task of mainland recovery.
14. The Central Standing Committee of Kuomintang approves General Chen I-fan, former commander-in-chief of the Chinese Air Farce, to be ambassador to Jordan.
15. The Executive Yuan approves October 31, the anniversary of the birth of the late President Chiang Kai-shek, and National Tomb Sweeping Day (which falls on April 4, 5 or 6), the anniversary of his death, as national holidays.
The Cabinet also approved the appointment of Dr. Fredrick F. Chien, director general of the Government Information Office, as vice minister of foreign affairs, and of Ding Mou-shih, director of African affairs of the Foreign Ministry, as his successor at GIO.
16. Miguel Santamaria Davila, member of the Colombian House of Representatives, arrives for a 9-day visit.
17. Dr. Myeth Chandler, mayor of Memphis, Tennessee, and his wife arrive for a week's visit.
18. Chinese and American Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts jointly host a Scout-O-Rama.
19. Ding Mou-shih, newly appointed director general of the Government Information Office, assumes his duties.
Henry Kao, minister of communications, leaves for a visit to Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
Twenty-six economic counselors and trade representatives from overseas and over 60 officers from interested government agencies at tend a conference looking toward enlargement of foreign trade.
20. Chinese and U.S. scientists meet at an eight-day Seminar on Pharmaceutical Chemistry.
The United World Chinese Commercial Bank, funded by overseas Chinese from 17 countries and the same number of local banking institutions, opens in Taipei.
President Yen Chia-kan receives Dr. C. T. Mulder, visiting minister of the interior and information of South Africa. The Legislative Yuan passes a statute authorizing the Central Government to float reconstruction bonds up to 25 per cent of the annual budget.
21. The Republic of China and the U.S. exchange notes on a new three-year agreement covering cot ton, man-made and wool textile exports to the United States. A rally is held at the Free China Relief Association auditorium to mark the 13th anniversary of the May Exodus.
In May 1962, a record number of Chinese fled to Hongkong from the Chinese main land to seek freedom.
22. The Free China Relief Association declares more than 4 million freedom seekers have fled the Chinese mainland since 1949.
23. A ten-member U.S. Congressional Staff Delegation arrives for a week's visit at the invitation of the Pacific Cultural Foundation.
Gen. Lai Ming-tang, chief of the general staff, decorates Rear Adm. Wycliffe D. Toole Jr., commander of the U.S. 7th Fleet in the Taiwan Straits, with the Order of Cloud and Banner with Cravat.
Hamer DeRoburt, president and minister for external affairs of the Republic of Nauru, arrives for a visit.
24. U.S. Representatives Davson Mathis and William Thad Cochrin arrive for a week's visit.
Madame Chiang Kai-shek thanks overseas Chinese for mourning the passing of President Chiang Kai shek.
Two special envoys of Paraguay, Lt. Gen. Andres Rodriguez Pedotti and Brig. Gen. Guillermo F. Clebsch, arrive for a week's visit.
26. U. S. Representative David Bowen arrives for a five-day visit.
27. President Yen Chia-kan receives Stephen D. Bechtel Jr., president, and George P. Shultz, executive vice president, of the Bechtel Engineering Consultant Corp. of the U.S.
The Legislative Yuan approves the NT$87,506,700,000 budget of Central Government for fiscal 1976. The amount was up 14.8% from fiscal 1975.
28. Premier Chiang Ching-kuo pays his seventh visit to Taichung Harbor since construction was started in 1973.
Gen. L. Louis Wilson Jr., commander-in-chief of the U.S. Air Force Pacific, and his wife arrive for a four-day visit.
A delegation of the ruling Democratic Republican Party of South Korea arrives for a six-day visit.
29. President Yen Chia-kan receives U.S. Representatives Edward J. Derwinski and Dominick Daniels.
Sheikh Mahmoud Sobhy Adbel Salam, secretary general of the Islamic Society and president of
the Islamic University of the Libyan Arab Republic, arrives for a six-day visit.
30. The Legislative Yuan passes a law reducing the sentences of most prisoners in Taiwan.
The statute, effective July 14, the 100th day after President Chiang Kai-shek's death, commemorates the benevolence of the late President.
31. Departing U.S. Representative William Thad Cochrin says the U.S. will continue to maintain diplomatic ties with the Re public of China.
June 1. An automated terminal radar system is installed at Taipei International Airport.
2. An 18-member parliamentary mission of Costa Rica led by Alfonso Carro Znuiga, president of the Legislative Assembly, arrives for a six-day visit.
3. Premier Chiang Ching-kuo cables his condolences to Mrs. Bisaku Sato on the passing of her husband, the former prime minister of Japan.
President Yen Chia-kan is elected president of the Chinese Cultural Renaissance Movement Committee to succeed the late President Chiang Kai-shek.
He urged members of the committee to follow the example of the late President in propagating traditional Chinese culture.
President Yen Chia-kan receives Diaeddin Rifa, vice minister of information and culture of Jordan.
4. Premier Chiang Ching-kuo, receiving 26 economic counselors and trade representatives from abroad, urges the nation's businessmen to acquire and maintain a good reputation in international markets.
A seven-member trade mission from Saudi Arabia arrives for a six-day visit.
President Yen Chia-kan receives Peter B. Grose, member of the Editorial Board of the New York Times.
A 14-member basketball squad of Vanderbilt University in Tennessee arrives for four games.
5. President and Mrs. Yen Chia-kan give a tea reception for the 18-member parliamentary mission from Costa Rica.
A six-member golf team leaves for Japan to take part in the Seventh Asian Amateur Golf Championships.
6. A track and field team leaves for Seoul to take part in the Second Asian Track and Field Meet.
President Yen Chia-kan receives Jean-elaude Feraud, president of the Junior Chamber International, and Tsai Tin-kuei, the JCI vice president.
U.S. Ambassador Leonard Unger returns from month-long home consultations.
7. Kao Chen, the Republic of China's first minister-charge d'affaires to the Kingdom of Tonga, leaves for Nukualofa. Chinese Ambassador to Colombia Sampson C. Shen is con currently ambassador to Tonga.
8. A tourism promotion team leaves for the U.S. and Canada.
9. The Republic of China terminates diplomatic relations with the Republic of the Philippines as Manila recognizes the Chinese Communists.
10. Premier Chiang Ching-kuo, ad dressing the Kuomintang, pledges to carry out Sun Yat-sen's Three Principles of the People and the late President Chiang Kai-shek's anti-Communist policy.
Free China's delegation to the 21st Asian Film Festival leaves for Jakarta.